Colton Burpo: Boy Who Inspired 'Heaven Is For Real' Still Remembers

Colton Burpo, the boy who inspired the movie “Heaven Is For Real,” appeared on the "Today" show Tuesday and said he doesn’t have dreams about what happened to him more than 10 years ago but still remembers his “trip to heaven” vividly.

Burpo, 14, the son of a Nebraska minister, was 4 years old when he underwent an emergency appendectomy in the spring of 2003. After he emerged from the surgery, he slowly told his family, over time, that he met angels and other people in heaven.

“The biggest thing for us was the integrity of the story and they’ve kept their word to do that,” Todd Burpo told "Today" about the movie. “When you see Greg Kinnear and especially this little boy, Connor, you’re going to see, I think, the best representation of what I saw 11 years ago.”